Dana H. Born, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a global consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Client work with the Institute has included Thermo Fisher, invitational programs and emerging women executive leader programs, with additional work in both the government and banking industries.

A retired Brigadier General with 30 years of service in the United States Air Force, Dr. Born is Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership (CPL); Faculty Chair, Senior Executive Fellows (SEF) Program; and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government).  Prior to coming to Harvard, from 2004-2013, she served two terms as the Presidentially appointed Dean of the Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy where she was also the Professor and Head of the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department. Previously, Dana served as an Exchange Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force, Assistant Director for Recruiting Research and Analysis for the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy), Deputy Chief of the Personnel Issues Team for the Department of the Air Force (DC/Staff Personnel), Aide and Speech Writer to the Secretary of the Air Force, Squadron Commander for 11th Mission Support Squadron at Bolling AFB, DC and in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

​A graduate with distinction of the United States Air Force Academy, Professor Born received her B.S. in Behavioral Sciences (1983), M.S. in Experimental Psychology from Trinity University, TX (1985), M.A. in Research Psychology from University of Melbourne (1991) and Doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Penn State University (1994). She received Penn State’s Alumni Fellow Award in 2012 and an Honorary Doctorate from Simmons College in Humane Administration in 2007.

​Born has been the recipient of a number of senior level military awards including the Secretary of the Air Force’s Eugene M. Zuckert Award for Outstanding Management Achievement, Air Force Association’s Hoyt S. Vandenberg Award for outstanding contributions to Aerospace education, Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Active Duty Service Women Veterans Award. She has been honored with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Teaching Awards 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 as well as the HKS Innovation in Teaching Award in 2017.

​Dr. Born is a Trustee on the United States Air Force Academy’s Falcon Foundation – serving on the Strategy, Governance and Scholarship Committees; President of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum; member of Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Consultant for the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI); Peer Evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission; member of Women Corporate Directors and the International Women’s Forum; Council Member on Boston Mayor’s Pay Equity Workforce; Advisory Board Member on “A Child’s Guide to War” documentary, Senior Officer for Mission: Readiness; Past-President of the American Psychological Association (Society for Military Psychology) and previous Director on Board of the Apollo Education Group having served on Compensation, Audit and Litigation Committees.

​Dana lives in Lexington, MA with her husband and two children. An avid outdoors and sports enthusiast, Dana treasures spending time with her family skiing, climbing, and mountain biking at their vacation home in Colorado’s high country and breaking away to the local beaches at Cape Cod.

Lisa DeAngelis is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included the education, insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

​Lisa is also the director for the Center of Collaborative Leadership at UMass Boston. Lisa brings more than twenty years of divisional and corporate leadership experience to ELP. In her role as a leader within the Human Resource function she created strong business partnerships with line executives helping them to identify, clarify, implement, and achieve aggressive strategic objectives.  Her corporate experience with companies of all sizes - from a 300-person start-up to a 32,000 person Fortune 500 global organization, and such diverse industries as call centers, insurance, construction management and IT consulting - served as a strong platform for her current work.

​In 2013, Lisa presented her workshop, Many Voices One Team: Engaging Diverse Networks to Address Complex Issues, at the 15th Annual Global ILA Conference in Montreal. She was co-author of “Lessons from Teamwork,” published in the summer 2014 issue of Leader-to-Leader, and of the article, “Teamwork: Crucible for Learning about Collaborative Leadership,” presented at the 12th Annual International Conference on Management hosted by the Athens Institute for Education and Research, summer 2014. In addition, she was the author of “Creating a Global Community: Facilitating Discourse Among Engaged Stakeholders,” which was presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Business and Society in Sydney.  In May 2015 Lisa also co-authored and submitted a journal article for review to the Journal of Business and Psychology, entitled “Learning to Lead Beyond Boundaries: Developing Leaders to Enable Expanded Impact.”

​Additionally, Lisa supports the work of professor Scott Snook in teaching Authentic Leadership Development to second-year MBA students at Harvard Business School.  She is also a presenter and mentor for the ALPFA, and has been invited to both facilitate and mentor in the ALPFA Boston Mentoring program from 2013-2015.

​Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bryant University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Regis University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Organizations and Social Change at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She is also an alum of the 2003 Emerging Leaders Program.

Bob Halperin is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Bob is an experienced executive and accomplished educator, facilitator, and designer of learning experiences for large and small groups.  He is a moderator in Harvard Business Publishing’s Leadership Direct Program and a Certified Forum Facilitator for Young Presidents Organization (including Transformational Forum).

​He has taught previously in Dartmouth Tuck’s Executive Education Program, MIT Sloan School’s Innovation Program, and Northeastern University’s Graduate Program in Leadership, and has served as a facilitator in multiple Harvard Business School Executive Education programs and in other corporate and non-profit settings.

​Bob is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, and from 2010 to 2013 served as their Executive Director.  He is also co-founder and managing director of Alumni Forum Services, a company that brings Harvard and other business school alumni together for confidential, small group discussions of important business and personal issues.

​In addition to teaching and facilitation, Bob’s other areas of expertise include needs assessment, program architecture and development, design and management of action learning projects and web-based classes, and program evaluation and assessment.  Bob brings to this work two decades of executive education, consulting, and senior management experience including leadership roles at four premier educational institutions: Young Presidents Organization (Chief Education Officer), Harvard Business School (Managing Director/Senior Vice President), Babson College (Associate Dean), and MIT Sloan School of Management (Executive Director of Executive Education).

​Bob has designed, developed, and managed educational programs for some of the world’s leading corporations, professional associations, and non-profit organizations, including HBS’s largest ever, off-campus program for a global financial services company, and the school’s largest single on-campus program for Habitat for Humanity.  His portfolio of work ranges from one-hour global conference calls to year-long degree-granting programs, and from open-enrollment and custom offerings to multi-company research and educational consortia.

​Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in economics from Brandeis University.  In 2002 he was chosen as an Eisenhower Fellow, and participated with a small group of other mid-career American leaders in an intensive program of international idea exchange.  Bob’s fellowship topics – best practices in executive development, the role of technology in management education, and enhanced models for industry-university cooperation – remain central interests for him today.

Toye Honeyman is a Senior Consultant working with the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

Prior to her work with the Institute, Toye was a Principal in the New York office of RHR International, a firm of management psychologists who consult with senior business leaders and teams.

Her extensive career has focused on facilitating change and accelerating the development of individuals, teams and organizations. Combining insight into people, systems and group dynamics, she links leadership behavior and action plans to enable the achievement of strategic business objectives.

Toye has been involved in the design and implementation of large scale change initiatives and is experienced in helping individuals, teams and organizations successfully manage restructuring and transitions. She has been instrumental in helping start-ups manage rapid growth and has worked with C-level executives to develop more effective and high performing teams, as well as take on more complex leadership roles. Her work has encompassed a wide range of large and small companies including those in the entertainment, media, biotech, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, consumer goods, construction, service and manufacturing industries.

Prior to her management consulting career, Toye was a consulting and clinical psychologist in New York City where she taught, practiced and consulted with physicians in a large teaching hospital and medical center. She has also maintained a private practice as a clinical psychologist. She has held several academic appointments including positions at Hunter College (CUNY), New School for Social Research and the University of Oregon.

Toye holds a Ph.D. from Adelphi University and is a licensed psychologist in California and New York.

Michelle Hoover is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Michelle is a leadership and learning strategist, facilitator, consultant, and ICF-certified coach. She is the Founder and Principal of Baem Leadership. She and her teams have designed, delivered, and facilitated learning programs for more than 15,000 participants across five continents in her 16 years in executive development. Michelle has worked with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including technology, consumer goods, beauty, luxury and professional and financial services, among others. She also served as a leader in a venture-backed educational startup, serving as General Assembly’s first product leader for the company’s corporate training division, developing the core strategic asset on which The Adecco Group’s $400M acquisition of the company was based. Prior to Baem, she established the Leadership and Learning function at Audible, an Amazon company, launching the company’s first suite of management-development learning initiatives and led two years of 100 percent year-over-year growth ($6M to $26M) at General Assembly overseeing four global functions responsible for product and service quality in the delivery of online and in-person learning programs on leading and operating in the digital age.

Michelle also served as Director of Executive Education for the Beijing-based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and spent eight years in several roles at Duke Corporate Education, at the time the No. 1 provider of custom executive education as ranked by the Financial Times and BusinessWeek. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Michelle earned her B.A. in journalism from Penn State University and her Ed.M. from Harvard University in higher education, where she focused on organizational and leadership theory.

Michelle lives in New York, where she enjoys Hamilton, Central Park, people-watching, and the creativity and energy that emanate from the city.

Harry Hutson is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.  Harry’s leadership purpose is to help people get out of their own way.

​Previously, Harry led the leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and learning functions at Devon Energy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  His responsibilities included design and delivery of Devon’s comprehensive suite of executive academies that combine assessment, coaching, and action learning, as well as leader-led instruction.  While there, Devon was rated among The 100 Best Places to Work and most admired companies in the oil and gas industry.

​Prior to this work, Harry was an independent coach and organizational consultant located in Lexington, Massachusetts, with multinational, startup and nonprofit clients.  And before 2000, Harry was a Human Resources and Organizational Development Executive at Global Knowledge, Avery Dennison, and Cummins.  His client work with the Institute has included Devon Energy, Unilever, and Heineken.

​Harry’s latest book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most (with Martha Johnson), was published by Praeger in 2016.  Currently, his writing appears in publications such as Harvard Business Review, HR Practice & Strategy, the Organizational Development Network’s Organizational Practitioner, and The CEO Magazine.

​His previous books, Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization's Most Powerful Resource, with Barbara Perry, and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, with Barry Dym, have achieved notice—the latter was nominated for the Terry McAdam Book Award by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, and Harvard Business Review placed "hope" on the list of breakthrough ideas for 2007.

​For years, Harry has served on the Board of Directors of the New England Center for Children, a pioneering school for the treatment of autism with locations in Massachusetts and Abu Dhabi, and Urban Ministries of Durham (NC), a community shelter whose purpose is to end homelessness.

Itir Keskiner is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Itir Keskiner is an executive coach and founder of Insight Meets Action, LLC. She has helped hundreds of individuals, and dozens of teams feel motivated and inspired by bringing their values, goals, and actions into alignment. Itir has coached leaders of global Fortune 500 companies, and start-up founders, across a variety of industries, including consumer goods, technology, healthcare, and financial services.

Prior to dedicating herself to coaching, Itir had a decade long career as a consulting and marketing business leader at Accenture, Unilever, Samsung, and Burt’s Bees. At Unilever, she held brand management roles on the Dove, Suave, and Hellmann’s brands where she was responsible for leading global cross-functional and inter-agency advertising teams to deliver billion-dollar product innovations and manage multi-million-dollar global marketing campaigns. At Samsung, Itir was a global strategist and project leader for the semiconductor division at company headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Her team’s marketing strategy recommendations were presented directly to the CEO of Samsung Electronics and shaped long-term global product development decisions.

Itir holds a PCC from the International Coach Federation and is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. Itir received her M.B.A from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. She is an avid meditator who has completed over 300 hours of Vipassana meditation training in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. Itir lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband and daughter where they enjoy being outdoors in the woods.

Jack MacPhail is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included West Point and Wharton, with additional work in the banking and pharmaceutical industries.

​Jack is a senior executive advisor with extensive global experience at the executive level. Described as possessing unique ability to identify and solve human-related business challenges at senior levels, MacPhail is recognized for delivering unfiltered honesty with tact and aplomb. With more than 40 years of professional, military, and athletic experience, both "doing" and "consulting", Jack has the ability to integrate multiple perspectives, commercial acumen, and global knowledge in addressing difficult challenges at the senior-most level. He has developed a particular expertise in working with financial executives (and their teams) being groomed for senior level general leadership positions.

​He resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife Sandy.

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Juan Mobili is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Juan’s client work with the Institute has included LEGO, Heineken, Thermo Fisher and the School of Government of Guatemala, with additional work in the government, banking and pharmaceutical industries.

Juan is a leadership development consultant, executive coach and facilitator who believes that agile collaboration, dynamic talent development and integrity of execution are the critical elements for reaching and sustaining ambitious organizational goals.

Juan’s impact is visible in his work with global companies. For the last thirty years, he has designed and facilitated senior team programs for organizations throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe, focusing on defining and executing their business strategies, developing their next generation of senior leaders. These efforts have elevated cross-functional alignment and dynamic execution for companies such as Nike, Disney, Danone, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald’s and Microsoft, among others.

He has been an executive coach as part of the Wharton School of Business’ Advanced Management Program, and for Harvard Business School’s senior leadership programs on organizational transformation. As a result of this pursuit, Juan has developed his own brand of consulting and executive coaching providing his clients with the ability to develop a unique leadership identity and leverage their capacity to inspire themselves and others to unleash their organizational potential.

In addition to this, Juan has also designed and/or facilitated one-of-a-kind presentations and events, most recently for senior leadership groups at Citigroup, PepsiCo, PAHO (the UN’s Pan American Health Organization) GlaxoSmithKline, and Discover Card.

Juan is fluent in Spanish and English and is a professional writer and translator (Spanish, English, Italian, and Portuguese). He’s also published poems, articles, and translations in literary and business publications in Europe, South America, and the US. He was educated in Argentina and the United States, with an emphasis on Philosophy of Language and Social Anthropology.

My purpose: “Empower dreams through connection, community, and kata”

Malcom Riley is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Malcom is passionate about empowering people and organizations. As Managing Partner at AYASPHERE, Inc., Malcom designs and delivers corporate education programs for companies invested in developing their leadership teams and pursuing ambitious goals. By combining diverse industry experience with insights gained from 15+ years of executive coaching, Malcom speaks to the unique challenges of the modern workplace and partners with audiences to facilitate solutions that energize the workforce, generate new innovations, and drive retention. His clients have included a variety of organizations including Amgen, Aetna/CVS Health, Credit Suisse, Duke University, LEGO, Morgan Stanley, Pepsi, etc.

Malcom served at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business for over a decade where he helped MBA students and alumni achieve their career goals while supporting key international strategy initiatives. At Lenovo, he led strategic alliances with key Fortune 500 partners, launched new products, and collaborated with colleagues across the globe to drive business growth. At Innovations in Healthcare, Malcom served on the senior management team, built strategic partnerships with Investors, Foundations, and NGOs, and provided 1:1 advisory services to senior executives of growth-stage organizations representing 90+ countries. At Invisalign, Malcom led strategic partnerships for North America, leading programs that accelerated business growth for customers, provided access to products and capital equipment, and delivered virtual and in-person continuing education.

Malcom is originally from Chicago and lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Adeirdre and daughter Amaris. He enjoys connecting with people from around the world, discovering new live music from incredible artists, watching movies and plays with great stories, practicing Martial Arts, and virtually every sport from futbol to football.

Jessica Austin is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

​Jessica, an American living in the Netherlands since 1999, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and leadership development facilitator with 20+ years of US and Pan-European HR, leadership development training and coaching experience. She was recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Coaching Leaders in 2017 and received additional awards for her work as a management and leadership skills development facilitator. Her work is aligned with her purpose, focused on providing coaching and professional development services for leaders in multinational organizations.

​Her background includes 10 years in Director and Senior Management roles (leading people and virtual teams), 10 years as an employee in HR HQs for Microsoft and Deloitte and 4000+ hours coaching and training people around the world.

​Jessica was Microsoft’s Global Learning & Development team’s in-house Master Facilitator for three years (2012-2014). In this role she coached 75 leaders and managers in a virtual 1-1 environment and travelled to 20 countries to deliver management skills training (Belgium, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the Global HQ in the US). Jessica also delivered Train the Trainer (TTT) programs, where she role-modeled, trained, assessed and certified facilitators and coaches to deliver Learning & Development services worldwide. In 2015 Microsoft awarded Jessica with an Excellence in Facilitation Award in appreciation of her strong performance.

​Jessica holds a degree in Psychology and Education (Cum Laude) and graduated from the reputable Coaching Certification Program at The Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, California. She holds the International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential and is licensed to administer and interpret the full Hogan Leadership Suite, the Hogan 360 multi-rater feedback tool, Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC) and Behavior Style Profile assessment tools.

​She was honored to receive the Global Passport Trainer of the Year Award in recognition of her top-quality training and coaching provided to leaders on behalf of Crown Relocations in 2011.

​Jessica’s clients span more than 50 countries world-wide and across various industries, including consumer goods, medical systems and education.

My purpose: "Live the ‘and’ to realize fierce angels and kickass miracles, now."

Louise Chester is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

Louise discovered a purposeful life back in her mid-twenties and established a daily mind training practice in 1994 to help her truly live this purpose. It immediately turbo-charged her career in finance, winning various global accolades and becoming a Director at UBS Ltd at the age of 27. Her daily practice of purpose and presence helped her access the insight and balance needed to sustain a pressured career through a series of challenging global and board level positions into her early 30s. Her final roles were for one of the world’s leading investment managers, Allianz Global Investors, as Head of Research London and then Global Sector Head responsible for the investment decisions for over $15bn of assets.

Louise retired from the City in 2002, with the express mission to share with the corporate world this highly effective evidence-based ‘Inner Game’ training, to enable others to create value and thrive not just in the workplace, but in all areas of their life. She founded Mindfulness at Work in 2010. Over the years, it has brought a bespoke suite of mind-based training, purpose and culture change programs to over 250 organizations and over 150,000 people in the corporate world.

Louise now works 1:1 with C-Suite leaders and designs and delivers programs that support global organizations to enable the kind of positive and sustainable cultures that attract talent and unlock potential, purpose and value.

Her recent portfolio has included working with Cisco, Citigroup, Coop and Unilever.

Louise lives with her daughter, two dogs, a cat and 10 very contented chickens, at the not-for-profit organic retreat center near Sandwich Bay, Kent that she founded in 2002. She plays tennis every weekend, even if it’s raining or snowing, is currently into her third year of daily cold-water swimming and loves growing and cooking delicious food for family, friends and guests. She is fascinated by the possibility that quantum physics hints at, the wisdom of nature and the beauty of the space between the notes.

Didier Dallemagne is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​In the last 15 years, he has been leading the Unilever operations in his country, then successively 2 global categories (Beverages followed by Spreads). In these positions, he led his teams through a large variety of challenges like acquisitions, disposals, creation of new business models and channels, turnarounds, media and operational crises, and creation of new product categories. He also sat on the Board of joint ventures, chaired European and Global Trade Associations, and collaborated with leading NGOs to drive industry-changing initiatives in Sustainability. Didier has lived in 5 countries, and led teams based in 20 different countries on all continents, which makes him well aware of the challenges of cross-cultural leadership.

​The Institute's programme was critical in Didier’s finding his True North for his second career in executive coaching. He also deeply believes in Authentic Leadership, and his coaching helps his clients get the best of their natural style.

​Didier is a Trustee of the Fairtrade Foundation (UK), which gives him the chance to continue to contribute to sustainable development, an area for which he developed a passion during his career with Unilever.

​Didier holds a MSc in Business Engineering of the Université Libre de Bruxelles – Solvay Brussels School (Brussels, Belgium), and follows a MSc Executive Coaching - Ashridge (UK).

​He is a Belgian citizen and lives in Brussels with his wife Catherine; they have 2 adult children. Didier loves exploring cities with his wife, reading novels, and practicing sports like cycling, tennis and skiing.

Els Druyts is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically. From her own purpose “With compassion and courage, let’s dance differently,” Els supports organizations and their leaders to let them ‘be’ who they really are, hereby increasing the meaning of what they do in work and life with a growth mindset.

Els is a Business/HR professional with a business oriented and commercial mindset. Her Marketing background and 20 years of solid Marketing-HR experience gives her an edge to support organizations to focus on the people perspective within business and culture transformations in order to make the ‘hard right’ strategic choices (instead of the ‘easy wrong’). And this, on a smart, continuous, competitive, integrated and sustainable basis.

Els worked in international multi-cultural environments in different sectors, such as FMCG (Unilever), Media (VRT), Energy (Shell). She fulfilled senior business HR consulting and various leadership roles, such as HR Director, Learning and Development Manager, Organization Design Leader among others. She is an expert in Organization Design, Business Transformation, Conscious Business, Change Management, Team and Leadership Development and Executive Coaching.

Els' capability to translate strategies into tangible solutions for people and deliver effective plans (including communication) enables organizations to make a step change in the way they operate. She is a motivating speaker. She has studied in Belgium and holds a master’s degree in Commercial Engineering with a major in Human Resources Management, as well as a master’s degree in NLP, Transformative Life Coaching and Conscious Business (Fred Kofman). She is also accredited as Practitioner in the Barrett ‘Cultural Transformation Tools’ and Sociocracy 3.0.

Els inspires to create purpose- and value-driven organizations through reconnecting with who they are (through purpose), what is truly important (through values) and what they want to achieve (through objectives). Both the organization and its leaders grow and evolve towards more depth and life quality through meaning, adding sustainable value for themselves, their teams and their organization.

Els lives in Belgium with her husband Peter and their 2 kids, Oliver and Hanne. She loves dancing, skiing, biking, swimming and adventurous traveling.

My Purpose: “To be the beacon on the rock that emboldens you to be who you truly are”

David Hopley is the Affiliate Ambassador for the Core Leadership Institute, a global consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

David is a leadership, management and business consultant, coach and mentor with over 40 years of experience gained from working in both the commercial sector, and more broadly, from a highly successful military career.

A motivational leadership speaker, David is a former co-head for Europe Middle East & Africa of Goldman Sachs’ award winning leadership and development platforms – Goldman Sachs University and Pine Street. As a consultant, he has worked with a variety of clients from the financial, energy, retail, insurance, health care, tourist, Olympic and education sectors, as well as the not-for-profit sector.

David is affiliated to the US Joint Special Operations University in Florida, for which he serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow. He is both a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) and Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) for excellence in teaching. He was the Adjunct Faculty member for 2013/2014 in recognition of his achievements. In addition, David is Chairman for the Board of Trustees for a London-based charity that uses music and dance to discover and enable the potential in young people - giving them opportunities they may not otherwise have to make a difference in their lives.

David is an Executive Coach, and holds ‘member’ status with the Association of Coaching. His coaching and mentoring clients range from ‘C level’ across a variety of sectors at institutions, to Olympic coaches. He is also a member of Allied Corporate Partners (ACP) mentoring panel, helping former members of the US Armed Forces into second careers.

David has extensive experience working with clients from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the U.S.

David served in a variety of appointments during his 30-year military career in the Royal Marine Commandos and UK Special Forces. He has commanded in every rank, and was Commanding Officer of the SBS between 1993-1996. He also served as a member of the teaching staff at the Joint Services Defence College, from 1996 - 1997. Awarded an OBE in 1994, David’s last appointment before retiring on July 2005 was Deputy Commander – UK Special Forces.

David has 3 ‘children’ (aged between 33-39!), and he and his wife Christine, a human and animal physiotherapist, share a passion for horses, dogs and making a difference.

My Purpose: “To bring levity to leadership’s difficult and not so difficult moments!”

Alph Keogh is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to leaders and organizations discovering their deeper purpose and having the courage to live it.

​Client work with the Institute has included Heineken, Thermo Fisher and Unilever, with additional work in the high tech, banking and health care industries.

​Alph is a learning and change consultant coach, moderator and speaker.  He has more than twenty years experience in the area of international executive education and change / leadership development. Beyond his work with the Institute, Alph's work has been featured in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications.  He was a pioneer in implementing action learning on a global basis and has wide experience in the areas of emotional intelligence, employee engagement, change, communication, virtual teaming and cross-cultural management, and authentic leadership. He is a renowned storyteller and teaches executives how to integrate stories in their communication strategy and presentations. Possessing outstanding conceptual, design and delivery skills he works across a variety of industries and has led executive programs in more than fifty countries worldwide.

Alph has consulted for many international organizations, including Allianz AG, Molnlycke Health Care, General Cologne Re, Disney Asia Pacific, Ramball A/S, Möller Automotive, KION, Boeing Corp, Siemens Energy, SEN, International Truck & Engine and Xperian and Kennametal.  He has served as adjunct faculty member at the Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW) University of Paderborn, Germany where he taught on the MBA program.

Kasia Królak is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute - leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact. She received MA diploma in psychology and she is also certified coach of International Coach Federation. Kasia is a creator of initiative Creative in Business supporting creative industry in its growth. Since 2010 Kasia has worked as a coach, facilitator and consultant, providing psychometric tests and feedback sessions for companies and individual clients in Poland and abroad. Kasia gain her experience working for the world’s biggest companies, successfully helped fast-growing startups manufacturers and family businesses. As a Business Trainer and Executive Coach Kasia has worked with senior and executive business leaders, managers, professionals and teams in various business sectors including banking and finance, IT, consulting, insurance, services and technology. Kasia helps leaders to develop communication and conflict resolution skills. As an expert she focuses on team building, individual development strategies. She supports companies during the changing process, 
diagnosing managerial potential. Her main interest is in intercultural coaching – the support of expats in the process of adaptation. She is fascinated by building strategies and products on the basis of the methodology of “design thinking”.
 Kasia also supports HR departments advising in the process of recruitment and performance evaluation. At work and in her private life she combines the ability to perceive analytically human behaviors and relations together with a high level of communication skills as well as having great interpersonal approach. Her chief qualities are openness, wholeheartedness and a positive attitude to life.

Matthias Malessa a Senior Consultant with the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included Heineken.

​Matthias has spent more than 25 years in key roles at Adidas, including Senior Financial Controller, VP Financial Controlling, SVP of Global HR and most recently as Chief HR Officer.

​Matthias is a Board Member of the Hauptverband der Deutschen Schuhindustrie (HDS) and the Franconian International School (FIS) in Erlangen, a Lecturer at the Fachhochschule Jena and Nehemia University in Albania, and a member of the following networks: Bund Deutscher Arbeitgeber, Personalleiterzirkel, and Unternehmensethischer Salon Nuremberg.

​Matthias received his Diplom Volkswirt (Degree in Economics) at the University of Heidelberg.

Matthias is a native German speaker, and is business fluent in English. His hobbies include tennis, golf and jogging.

My purpose: “To gather orchestras without boundaries and invite everyone to play their part.”

Lorraine Margherita is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Lorraine defines herself as a catalyst for change: she co-designs and facilitates collective dynamics for better governance and performance in generally large and multicultural organizations. She focuses on removing the barriers between decision and action and helps companies bring decision-making to lower levels, given their specific culture and orientation. She can explain the 30 different words that describe an organization where workers and teams have more autonomy and share responsibility.

Lorraine has worked with more than 5,000 managers and leaders, in groups of 8-300 people with clients such as Thales, Thales Alenia Space, Siemens, HOP! Air France, Gilead, Sanofi Pasteur, Louis Vuitton, Airbus, Boehringer Ingelheim among many others in Europe, the Americas and Australia. She likes to pass on her knowledge and passion through conferences and experiential training programs in collaborative practices and decision-making. As a freelancer, she is actively engaged in a network of peers and experts, allowing for even more insight and impact in her assignments.

Lorraine is an active member of the Society for Organizational Learning and of the Innov8rs community. She is also—of course—a member of the Purpose community.

Previously, Lorraine explored the world of consulting in a big firm (PwC), telecoms regulation in an independent State agency (Arcep), and history and publishing as a project coordinator for Pulitzer winner Tom Reiss (The Black Count).

She is still looking for someone who would have the same combination of masters as she does: Communications and Political Science (Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Lyons, France), International Relations (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.), Telecoms and Management (Dauphine University, Paris). As a "learner", she never stops taking classes and learning!

A French national, Lorraine is also fluent in English. She lived in the US twice before and has now resettled in Paris with occasional stays in London. She is the mother of a teenager and of two young adults holding three citizenships. She has many interests, such as playing the flute in various orchestras since childhood. She also runs half-marathons and has a passion for movies (preferably before 1960), and history.

My purpose: “To help you find your edge and celebrate the now! ”

Joanna (Jo) Moss is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

Jo is a well-respected senior executive coach and coach supervisor with more than 30 years of experience working with senior management of companies from all around the world. This includes over 8 years coaching at senior level, individually and in teams and working with Boards on their effectiveness. She has a particular interest in the challenges of cross-cultural work especially as she herself has lived and worked abroad in Spain and has experienced this firsthand.

She specializes in preparing leaders for promotion and leadership, supporting them through major change and transition where delivering results, securing buy-in, and influencing stakeholders are key. As a former investment banker, she has worked for some of the world’s most demanding organizations and has real experience of virtual teams and the challenges of living abroad.

Jo has a reputation for energy, creativity and delivering results quickly. Her approach is very practical and solution-focused, and she is able to help individuals and teams work more collaboratively and meet the challenges of today’s global workplace. A natural linguist, she is able to work comfortably in English, French or Spanish.

She has a Joint Honours Degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Durham and an MSc. in Consulting and Coaching for Change and Leadership from the University of Oxford and HEC in Paris.

Jo is British and shares her time between London and Paris. In her spare time, she is a keen sports woman – she loves to ski and has swum across the Hellespont and has recently completed walking the length of the Pyrenees.

Kate (Kathryn) Pohl is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a global development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Kate was born in New York City, but grew up in both the USA and Germany. She is a dual national (US/German) and is married with one son (Jonathan, 24 years old). She did her BA at the University of California at Riverside graduating with highest honors. Kate did graduate work in German literature and taught German at the University of Pennsylvania before earning her MBA in International Finance at the Wharton School.

Kate started her career at the Irving Trust Company/Bank of New York in NYC responsible for correspondent banking in various geographic regions including Northern and Central Europe. The bank sent her to Germany to run transaction products (securities, cash, trade) as well as credit (Senior Credit Officer). Kate was subsequently appointed co-branch manager & Geschaeftsleiterin. She left BNY to head up Corporate Payment Services and Cash Management Sales at the Chase Manhattan Bank AG in Frankfurt in 1992. She and her team were responsible for cash and treasury management products for corporate customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In 1998, Kate joined ABN AMRO Bank as Global Transaction Services Head in Germany. She was responsible for sales, client delivery, and product management. Her role was later expanded to include sales and client delivery for Eastern Europe. In 2003 Kate moved to Amsterdam to head Global Implementation for Cash Management and Trade and in 2006 accepted the role of Global Head of Compliance for GTS, IT, and Operations.

Kate returned to Frankfurt to join Citigroup as Transaction Services Head for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2008. She added securities products to her portfolio in 2009 and was also the senior responsible for Transaction Services vis-à-vis the Public Sector. Given Kate's passion for coaching and mentoring, she helped to set up a program in Frankfurt to help young talents. In 2014 Kate joined ING Wholesale Banking in Frankfurt as Transaction Services Sales (TSS) Head for Germany & Austria. TSS is responsible for sales in the areas of payments and cash management, liquidity optimization, commercial cards, as well as trade products and services. Working Capital Solutions – supply chain and receivables financing - were also part of her remit. In September 2016 Kate was appointed Head of Payments Innovation Germany & Austria for ING. In this role she was the bridge between Retail and Wholesale in terms of Transaction Services. She was the Subject Matter Expert and face of the bank regarding Innovation and Regulation in the Wholesale market. To support the bank’s diversity agenda, Kate joined the Diversity Council as well as supporting HR in creating a program for both coaching and mentoring of staff.

In July 2018 Kate left ING to focus on Consulting full time. She can draw from a rich background, working with corporate clients, financial institutions as well as the public sector. Kate brings her experience in innovation and digitalization within all areas of transaction services to help clients unlock the potential of their organizations and be ready for the future. First working with HSO Consulting and then moving on to freelance, Kate supports companies and banks as a Senior Consultant. She also works with the European Banking Association as a facilitator for their Open Forum programs. In August 2018 Kate joined the Core Leadership Institute as a Senior Consultant. She can now leverage her passion for helping and supporting people to grow and become more successful through coaching. This is a skill which has been honed and part of her toolkit for the last 30+ years.

Haydn Rees is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

​Haydn is an experienced practitioner in strategy execution and culture change, as well as a respected consultant in organisational, leadership, talent and leadership team development.  His experience is a product of over a decade of leadership in corporate life delivering growth and profits internationally, ‘blue chip’ business consultancy around the globe and operational service in the Royal Marines and Special Forces.

​An ability to engage and communicate effectively at all levels across an organisation combines with a pragmatism that create in Haydn a specialist in the linkage between strategy and ground up execution. Haydn has used his skills and experience to successfully drive a hands-on pan-European business ‘turn-around’ working as a member of the business’s executive team.  He has also lead interventions to facilitate ‘turn-arounds’ and performance improvement programmes.

​Core to this approach is his conviction that leadership and high performance are infectious, particularly under pressure – and for good or for bad.   Focusing on individual mindset and the broader, critical, choreography between business behaviour and execution, Haydn helps individual leaders and managers from blue chip environments with coaching insights and facilitation that crystallise down to the very next decision and action.

​The trust clients place in him is underpinned by his straightforward approach to facilitating the move from a strategy to next step action plans using a simple, iterative process across a communications-backbone that extends to every employee. He has a proven track record in following through to implementation, operating from a PMO and directing internal High Impact Teams towards priority tasks. Equally, Haydn has designed, lead and delivered a variety of innovative leadership and talent development programmes designed to shift capabilities and mind-sets to at least two levels above their own. Clients have described these as world class. He has also lead culture transformation programmes across international boundaries in most sectors.  He is adept at blending the right mix of learning approaches – tools, psychometrics, action based, experiential, simulation, scenario’s, case study coaching and mentoring -  environments and consultants to deliver an enduring result for clients.

​Haydn holds an MBA in International Business and Strategic Human Resource Management, and can work with a plethora of assessment, psychometric and profiling tools, and is a member of the EMCC and CIM. Haydn is fluent in English and French.

Artur Rzepecki is a freelance personal consultant specializing in executive coaching and leadership development for boards of directors and senior managers. He is experienced in recruitment management, trainings, and development planning in corporations. While working for FMCG, he had a change to build HR programs and strategy which were later implemented in several countries in Eastern Europe. Unitl 2003, he was in charge of recruitment and staff development in Polkomtel (Vodafone subsidiary) for almost five years. From January 2004 to December 2009 he was a partner of Aretes Consultants. During this period he implemented several dozen of executive search projects and developed the coaching practice. He’s associated with Asterys (www.asterys.com) and Acuity Coaching. Artur is MCC (Master Certified Coach) by ICF, he has conducted more than 5000 hours of coaching sessions. From 2004 he is an active member of International Coach Federation. From April 2009 until April 2011 he chaired ICF Polska. He is accredited user of Talent Q, Hogan Assessment and Cultural Transformation Tools and licensed trainer for Coaching Clinic® program supporting development of teams and employees as well as individual growth in the field of leadership skills. For many years, speaks at conferences sharing experiences, and since 2009 he teaches at the postgraduate studies of coaching at Kozminski University, from 2012 also at the University of Warsaw. Coaching specialization Artur conducts coaching and individual development programs mainly for experienced managers. He also leads team coaching sessions which are very useful if the team wants to improve teamwork or fasten the implementation of complicated project. Cooperating with top managers, Artur supports the development of leadership skills, personal effectiveness and efficiency as well as improvement of interpersonal skills. Artur’s support is indispensable when: • manager enters completely new areas and faces new challenges and when apart from business and operational effectiveness he needs support in building effective relationships. • manager finds himself with a deadlock in his professional effectiveness or faces motivation crisis • manager wants to improve his leadership skills to become more consistent and firm • firm manager wants to gain new skills to be able to appreciate the work results of his coworkers in order to improve the relationships within a team or with other members of management board.

Wolfgang Schneider is a Senior Consultant with Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact. He is a Senior Global Learning & Development Consultant at Microsoft as well as a certified systemic Business-Coach with the DBVC, the German Federal Association of Executive Coaching. Passionate about energizing people and organizations to learn and grow, he consults internal HR and business clients on learning and development offerings and journeys for leaders, managers and employees, grounded in driving Microsoft’s cultural transformation. With 25+ years of impactful work in the fast-paced IT industry, 15+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, internal Consulting and Change Management and 8 years in various management roles, he has a proven record of successes in implementing cross-company initiatives and projects aligned to enterprise-wide strategies. Wolfgang’s deep business acumen is complemented by facilitation experience in various in-house leader and manager development programs as well as know-how in systemic business coaching. His extraordinary skills in communication and cross-group collaboration as well as his project management experience with designated technology background achieving high client satisfaction make him a sought-after consultant. Painting the landscape, exploring perspectives and finding a path, his work as a coach is outcome-focused and pragmatic. His calm and concentrated approach together with his seniority and presence create an environment that is perceived as welcoming, trustful and constructive. Wolfgang received his Diploma in Medical Information Science at the University of Heidelberg. He is living in Munich, Germany, is a native German speaker and is business fluent in English. He is a committed husband and father of a son and a daughter and enjoys high quality food and wine as well as reading on philosophical topics.

Olivier Schobbens is a Senior Consultant with the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

​Olivier has had two careers so far.  In the first part of his professional life, he grew through HR responsibilities of increasing scope, culminating as the EVP of HR for a public, international Construction group that now employs 18,000 people across the world and generates 2,0 bn€ revenues.Olivier then chose to become an independent consultant and led the Brussels office of a premier consultancy in Leadership Psychology.

​Olivier is appreciated by his clients and coachees for his ability to build trust and engage in in-depth, insightful dialogue leading to deeper self-awareness.   By being both incisive and highly respectful, he helps them broaden their perspective and invites them to engage into expanding their leadership capabilities and impact in an authentic way.

​He works comfortably across industries, for sophisticated global corporations, international institutions, family-run businesses and young, fast-growing companies. He operates globally, with ‘home bases’ in Brussels and Paris.  He is fluent in French, Dutch & English.

​Olivier is a Lic. Psychologist from the U.C. Louvain in Belgium.  Later in his career, he graduated from the IEP program at INSEAD (Fontainebleau / Singapore).  He gained coaching expertise art the renowned Tavistock Institute of London.  He volunteers for Duo for a Job and offers pro bono consulting services to Doctors of the World Belgium.  He is the proud father of 4 children.

Peter Soer is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership development firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Peter spent 25+ years leading marketing powered businesses around the world, creating strategy, building diverse teams, driving change programs and delivering performance. He lived and worked in UK, China, Netherlands and Ireland, leading national regional and global businesses. He developed the belief that leadership is the critical factor in business success; and coaching is the key to sustainable leadership, team development and talent retention. His coaching philosophy and approach is to focus on developing an inclusive and diverse leadership and talent pipeline.

Peter works with the world-class Henley Business School (University of Reading), and is the founder of Bravely Honestly Generously Ltd. He devotes his energy to coaching and mentoring a range of professionals to enjoy and increase their success.

Peter is a graduate of Cambridge University in Natural Sciences / Pharmacology.

Ann Van de Perre is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

Ann is a leadership growth expert, executive coach, organizational development advisor and keynote speaker.  Her professional expertise is focused on impactful coaching, strategic Organizational Development advice, HR transformation work, global change management, process & system  redesign and implementation.

​Ann has held senior roles at Hewlett Packard, Berenschot, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Citicorp, Bristol Myers Squibb and ING.

​Ann received an Organizational Psychology degree with the highest distinction from Ghent University, a Masters in Business Management from CEPAC (Solvay Business School), and a Post Graduate degree in Economics from Antwerp University – all in Belgium.  A Masters in Executive Coaching at VU Amsterdam/Ashridge – as well as an ICF certification - are both in process.

​Based in Belgium, Ann is also the owner of Annspired – specialising in executive coaching, strategic HR and OD, facilitation of leadership teams, keynote speaking, design and implementation of organizational structure and talent strategy, as well as company purpose design and leadership and cultural behaviour work.

Steve Asimoudis is a Senior Consultant with the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included the banking, consumer packaged goods and hardware industries.

​Steve’s strength and passion lies in solutions that deliver sustainable business outcomes through a blend of anecdotes, analogies and a good dose of humour thrown in. His key learnings are drawn from over 25 years of experience working in a variety of commercial, L&D and OD roles primarily in the pharmaceutical industry.

​Steve has partnered with and delivered solutions for functional areas including commercial operations, manufacturing operations, finance, legal, IT, quality, supply chain, research and development, and regulatory/medical affairs.

​Steve has worked with leaders in sectors including advertising, agribusiness, banking/finance, chemicals, FMCG, healthcare, logistics, medical, packaging, pharmaceuticals, prestige cars and recycling.  The solutions provided have focussed on assessment, coaching, facilitation design and delivery.

​In addition to his undergraduate psychology degree, Steve completed a Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology and also holds a Master of Business in Marketing.  He is accredited to use a number of psychometric assessments including personality, values, behaviour and mental toughness.

​Steve’s purpose is to reveal what the signpost ahead says today."

Dina Pozzo is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included the consumer packaged goods and retail/trade hardware industries.

​Dina has more than twenty years’ experience in learning and organisational development both locally and internationally.  She is a highly skilled facilitator and coach.  Her natural enthusiasm and ability to quickly build relationships creates a shared learning journey of curiosity and discovery, challenge and encouragement.  Whether through workshops or coaching, Dina’s ultimate aim is to broaden minds and build skills, capability and confidence - empowering the individual to implement successful plans of action for sustainability and to have positive impact on organisational goals.

​Dina prides herself on her client-centric approach, building and sustaining partnerships by working closely with clients to define and deliver on organisational priorities and strategies.

​Dina has worked with senior and executive business leaders, people managers, professionals and teams, and continues to partner with industries such as banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, market research, engineering, biotechnology, hospitality, law firms, manufacturing and not-for-profit.

​Her areas of passion and expertise include leadership development, positive psychology and strengths-based development, appreciative inquiry and emotional Intelligence.

​Dina holds a Post Graduate Diploma of Business (Human Resource Development) from Deakin University, Australia and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Haematology) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.  In addition, Dina is accredited in a number of tools including Genos Emotional Intelligence 360-degree assessment and coaching and the MLQ Full Range Leadership ModelTM 360-degree assessment and coaching. She is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association and a Values-In-Action Strengths Ambassador.

​Dina’s purpose is to open doors, inviting you to step through these with her and soak up the other side.

Kevin Smith is the Regional Manager - Asia/Australia for the Core Leadership Institute, a global consulting firm committed to waking up those who will wake up the many by inspiring them to discover their purpose and equipping them to lead authentically.

​Client work with the Institute has spanned the consumer packaged goods, retail/trade hardware and pharmaceutical industries.

​Based in Melbourne, Australia, Kevin has more than twenty five years of experience in the area of international executive and organizational development.  Kevin has long-term, successful experience in designing and implementing results-based leadership programs for the retail industry. His clients include Fosters Brewing, Foodworks supermarkets, Kmart, Uncle Toby’s, ANZ, NAB, and Jag jeans.

​Foodworks Leadership and Organization Development Programs:

​“Kevin was absolutely central to the development of the company’s culture, vision,  processes, structure, and successes. As a professional and remarkably insightful facilitator, Kevin was part of the original group that developed the concept of “Foodworks,” carried it into reality, and guided our senior managers in the art of developing teams to run this booming business.” (Arthur Hayes, CEO)

​He has run large change initiatives for multinational corporations including Siemens, BP, and Cabot Corporation.  He was previously Vice President at Organizational Dynamics Inc. (ODI) Asia Pacific, responsible for business development in the Asia Pacific region for that firm, a Boston based, global consulting business.

​Kevin combines longterm experience as a senior manager with outstanding facilitation and coaching skills. He gained his Masters degree in leadership and organization development from Monash University, and is an accredited facilitator in:​

• Leadership development, continuous improvement, strategic partnering and customer focus

• The Schaffer results-based breakthrough leadership program

• The Authentic Leadership program

• The Myers-Briggs instrument with its associated emotional intelligence instrument

​Currently, he is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and was the Foundation Head of the Hawthorn Institute post graduate Management and Administration program.

​Additionally, Kevin has designed and led best practices in leadership Study Tours in Japan and Australia.

Dani is a highly capable, creative and dynamic facilitator with over 20 years experience across, learning, coaching, sales and leadership roles. Since completing a Bachelor of Science, her love of learning has seen her complete a Diploma in Education, a Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Training and most recently, a Diploma of Positive Psychology. She is also a qualified Disc, MBTI and GENOS Emotional Intelligence Practitioner. Dani worked for many years as the Head of Learning and Development for a multi-national Pharmaceutical Company. During this time, she gained extensive coaching, facilitation and leadership experience in the Australian & Asian markets via numerous Leadership and Performance programs Her passion for people, particularly in the leadership space, has seen her work extensively across a vast number of leadership development programs, ranging from graduate through to senior management and executive level Her industry experience is vast, including Pharmaceuticals, Telco, Banking and Finance, Professional Services, Engineering and Real Estate.

Brian Truman is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included the consumer packaged goods industry.

​Throughout his career Brian has worked extensively within and across the following industries: Banking and Finance, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Professional Services and Health Care. Additionally he has worked closely with the following organisational functions: Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance, IT, Legal, Medical Affairs & Scientific Research.  As a result of this experience, Brian has developed into an accomplished program designer, facilitator and coach working with all levels of leadership (including senior executives, business leaders, people managers) and a broad range of specialist professionals.  He has dedicated his corporate life to maximizing organizational capability and performance through innovative people initiatives.

​In 2005, Brian established Zenith Potential Pty Ltd, an organisation devoted to partnering with organisations and their people, to develop and implement customised learning and coaching initiatives that enable them to achieve their maximum potential with regards to capability, performance, results and satisfaction. He is passionate about building relationships with clients that establish an ongoing partnership, enabling the development and implementation of sustainable, long-term initiatives.

​When asked what he enjoys most about his working life, he is quick to respond with: “Working with others to explore who they are and who they can be excites and inspires me! Being able to help people to establish what it means to be their best self and to create their best life, to unleash their full potential and create a space where they can flourish, provides me with rich purpose and meaning, driving everything I do!”

​Brian’s key areas of interest and expertise include: applying positive psychology principles and practices in the workplace; leadership development and coaching; enhancing team functioning and performance; facilitating culture transformation; developing emotional intelligence and intra/interpersonal capabilities.  He has extensive experience and capability coaching both individuals and teams within an organizational context and currently sits on the Executive Coaching Panel of a number of large Corporates.

​Brian has qualifications in Psychology, Social Research & Human Resources, with additional accreditations in: VIA Character Strengths; GENOS Emotional Intelligence 360 feedback facilitation and coaching; Results Coaching Systems; Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI) and DiSC behavioural profiling system.

Luke Wardle is a Senior Consultant for the Core Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm committed to creating leaders and organizations with a deeper purpose and the courage to transform their business impact.

​Client work with the Institute has included both the consumer packaged goods and banking industries.

​Luke has extensive experience in talent and organizational development consulting for multi-national organizations operating in China.  He specializes in organization and leadership development, particularly identifying (strategic planning), assessing (organization and individual assessment tools) and developing (coaching, action learning & workshops/training) leaders within Fortune 500 organizations.  He has facilitated organization development with simultaneous leadership team development programs throughout Asia where the objective is to reorient behaviors to improve performance of not only the individuals but the team as well.  He has also been a part of design and implementation teams facilitating cultural change.  Luke believes that partnering with the client organization is vital to the success of any initiative.

​Luke works to develop organizations and the talent within those organizations simultaneously.  His philosophy is to create organizations that can succeed at attaining strategic goals at the same time developing the people in those organizations to have the capabilities required to lead the organization.  One without the other is flawed and will digress to original.  He achieves this using a systematic approach and by including the client in the solution formulation and creating execution teams lead by the client to achieve both business results and people development.

​In the area of coaching, Luke primarily works with executives one-on-one, but also coaches groups and/or teams.  The coaching model he adheres to enables people to make breakthroughs to achieve the goals that are most important to them and the organization they work in.  Using a well laid out plan, he is able to help leaders identify their areas for improvement and create plans for change.  Luke also has practical experience in leading and managing business.  Since 1995, he has helped several small to medium sized companies grow from the inception stage to well established organizations.  He has held several positions in those organizations ranging from area general manager, to global development manager, to founder of his own organization – most of this experience was in the fast paced growth of the China market.  Luke is able to conduct business in English (native) or Mandarin Chinese.

​Luke holds an MA from Old Dominion University (Norfolk VA) in Economics & International Relations and a BA in Political Science from the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT).

My purpose: “I enjoy telling the stories with simple sophistication.”

Bilal is a Senior Consultant at the Core Leadership Institute and an advisor at “Outpace Consulting”. He has built a 36-year corporate career at senior levels in the Middle East & Africa Region -MENA.

Bilal developed his expertise in People Management & Development Systems while working for Procter & Gamble (1985 – 2000) as the “Regional Head of Sales Recruiting, Training & Development Manager – MENA; and Nestle Middle East (2000 – 2007) where he handled the dual roles of “Regional Head of Sales Training & Development – MENA” and “Center of Excellence for Nestle Zone AOA”.

Bilal then joined Arab Bank as their VP Global Head for Training and Development, where he remained until he started his own “A to Z Sales Solutions – Training & Management Consultancy” in 2009. Since 2018, Bilal has also served as The Director – Commercial Center of Excellence at Fine Hygienic Group, one of the largest regional groups in the Middle East.

Bilal’s passion on the professional front is building human capital and motivating people to discover their hidden potential towards success, growth, and happiness. He thrives when engaging with diverse people, building trustworthy relationships that stand the test of time. Bilal’s focus is on the legacy he can leave rather than any immediate rewards he may get from his work.

Bilal spends a considerable amount of time mentoring college students through credible philanthropy institutions in the Region. He maintains his mentor role with several prospects who were recruited, trained, and developed by him in the past, coaching them through their senior roles in global FMCG’s in the MENA Region. Bilal is a board member of two SME’s in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. However, Bilal’s ultimate passion is coaching his 3 sons and 2 daughters.

My purpose: “Never cease inspiring the pursuit of the higher ceiling.”

Nabil is a Senior Consultant with the Core Leadership Institute, focusing on the Middle East & Africa. Nabil has had a 36-year corporate career at senior levels in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with Procter & Gamble and later, The Hershey Company.

In 2015 he Founded “Outpace Consulting” which provides senior management consultancy and solutions to a variety of business challenges. Outpace has successfully provided their expertise to over 30 prominent FMCG companies in the region.

Nabil’s passion on the professional front is inspiring those around him to reach their full potential, a pursuit that is in fact never ending as he constantly encourages others to raise their own bar. Nabil does this coaching mainly through teaching the principles of Leadership.

Nabil currently spends his time between Egypt, the UK, and the U.S., all while trying to improve his golf game and cooking skills. In his free time, he enjoys practicing his hobbies and spending time with his two precious sons, Adam, and Ryan.